ANT 100 - Human Diversity

[3 credit(s)] Exploration of human biological and cultural diversity, with special emphasis on the US experience. General principles of diversity are developed and then applied to key diversity issues in the US, such as the African American education gap, Ebonics, affirmative action, reverse discrimination, reparations, transgender hate crimes, same sex marriage, official English, immigration, Holocaust revisionism, Islam and the US, and the status of women, the elderly, and the disabled, among others. Students gain valuable insights to help them negotiate the complexities of diversity in the US and world today.